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                        Midway!

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                        garyfo
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        Midway!
                        Posted by garyfo on Friday, August 22, 2003 9:17 AM
                        I just watched the movie Midway on AMC a few nights ago.

                        And I'm confused.

                        During the first air strike on the island, after the Japs leave, one US officer says to the other "At least the airfield is intact."

                        Than, they cut to stock footage of a B-17 landing with one wheel on an airfield.

                        I don't remember anything about B-17's landing at Midway during the fight? Didn't that happen during Pearl Harbor?
                        Gary
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                        therriman
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Central MI
                        Posted by therriman on Friday, August 22, 2003 9:46 AM
                        There were B-17's at Midway. Not many, they flew a high-level bombing attack against the "main" force. As is prone to happen against ships this attack was totally ineffectual. I don't think they returned during the strike. But Hollywood has a way of using whatever footage they have in stock. Accuracy takes a back seat to "drama".
                        Tim H. "If your alone and you meet a Zero, run like hell. Your outnumbered" Capt Joe Foss, Guadalcanal 1942 Real Trucks have 18 wheels. Anything less is just a Toy! I am in shape. Hey, Round is a shape! Reality is a concept not yet proven.
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                        tigerman
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
                        Posted by tigerman on Friday, August 22, 2003 10:38 AM
                        For a big budget movie, Midway was one of the technically worst WW 2 movies I have ever seen. They used Vindicators to represent Dauntlesses in flight to name one glitch.

                        "It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."-R.E.Lee

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                         Eric 

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                        nsclcctl
                        • Member since
                          May 2003
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by nsclcctl on Friday, August 22, 2003 10:47 AM
                        If I am not mistaken, I watched Midway the other night and Tora Tora Tora last night. I am convinced there was footage used in the later from the Midway movie. It is the attack on the island and a jeep crashing. All they did, I think, was colorize.
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                        rossjr
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Minneapolis, MN
                        Posted by rossjr on Friday, August 22, 2003 12:05 PM
                        Actually it was the other way around. Tora, Tora Tora came out first and much of the footage of it was used in Midway.
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                        Jeeves
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Saratoga Springs, NY
                        Posted by Jeeves on Friday, August 22, 2003 2:33 PM
                        Actually-- a lot of the footage of the attack on the island in the movie was shot at the time of the attack. John Ford arrived there a few days before and took footage right there at the scene. One bomb blast was close enough to knock him unconscious with the camera still rolling.
                        Mike
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                        Ed. M.
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                          May 2014
                        Posted by Ed. M. on Friday, August 22, 2003 4:29 PM
                        JF should have stayed unconcious rather than make that movieAngry [:(!]

                        Long Island Ed.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 22, 2003 7:21 PM
                        While neither of those movies may be very historically accurate, they sure are fun too watch Big Smile [:D].

                        Darren
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                        Keyworth
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: NE Georgia
                        Posted by Keyworth on Friday, August 22, 2003 8:12 PM
                        There are actually two Midway movies. The original is The John Ford movie that was part of the "Why We Fight" series made during WWII. The other, the one most everyone has seen and refers to, is the Hollywood version that borrowed heavily from "Tora, Tora, Tora." "Stole" would be a better word, except that the same studio produced both pictures.
                        "There's no problem that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives"
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 23, 2003 12:28 AM
                        In either case, they're both very entertaining. I suppose I'm kinda wierd in that respect. Yes, it's sometimes fun to find all of the inaccuracies in a movie, but I mainly watch them to be entertained. Take, for instance, U-571. Great movie, but totally unbelievable. It would have taken them months to learn how to drive that sub!

                        demono69
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